Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1925 — Page 8
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Tarzan A of THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
BEGIN HERE * May, 1888. John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice Ru Bierford, his wife, sail from Dover for a British post in Africa. During mutiny all officers on the Fuwalda are killed and the Claytons are landed on isolated Jungle shores. A year after their son is born. Lady Alice dies. Clayton is killed by an ape. A ape steals the Clayton child and drops her own dead babe in the cradle. She nurses the white child and at 10 years Tarzan (meaning white skin) climtw like an ape. He gains access to the Clayton hut and from pictures in a child’s primer learns that he is a man. At 18 he understands nearly all he reads in his father's books, but cannot speak English. He finds his father's photo, diary and a locket. As the diary is in French. Tarzan does not learn the riddle of his strange life. Savages escaping white officers invade territory near Tarzan's home. He strangled Kulonza. son of Mbonga, their king., Tarzan keeps the savages alarmed with his secret pranks. He renounce kingship of the apes, and dons ornaments of vanquished savages. A ship anchors near Tarzan's home. He sees a white man shoot another. On his cabin Tarzan posts a notice forbidding destruction of his treasures. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Who the devil Is Tarzan?" cried the sailor who had before spoken. "He evidently speaks English,” said the young man. "But what does ‘Tarzan of the Apes’ mean?" cried the girl. ”1 do not know, Miss Porter,” replied the young man, “unless we have discovered a runaway simian from the London Zoo who has brought back a European education to his Jungle home. What do you make of It, Profgssor Porter?” he added, turning to -the old man. Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter adjusted his spectacles. “Ah, yes, Indeed; yes, Indeed — most remarkable, most remarkable!” said the professor; "but I can add nothing further to what I have already remarked In elucidation of this truly momentous occurrence,” and the professor turned slowly in the direction of the Jungle. “But, papa,” cried the girl, “you haven’t said anything about it yet.” "Tut—tut, child; tut—tut,” responded Professor Porter, In a kindly and Indulgent tone, “do not trouble your pretty head with such weighty, and abstruse problems,” and again he wandered slowly off In still another direction, his eyes bent upon the ground at his feet, his 1 hands clasped behind him beneath the flowing tails of his coat. “I reckon the daffy old bounder don’t know no more’n we do about It,” growled the rat-faced sailor. “Keep a civil tongue in your head,” cried the young man, his face paling in anger, at the insulting tone of the sailor. "You’ve murdered our officers, and robbed us. We are absolutely In your power, but you’ll treat Professor Porter and Miss Porter with respect or I’ll break that vile neck of yours with my bare hands—guns or no guns,” and the young fellow stepped so close to the rat-faced sailor that the latter, though he bore two revolvers and a villainous looking knife in his belt, slunk back abashed. “You damned coward,” cried the young man. “You’d never dare shoot a man until his back was turned. You don’t dare shoot me even then,” and he deliberately turned his back full upon the sailor and walked nonchalantly away as If to put him to the test. The sailor’s hand crept slyly to the butt of one of his revolvers; his wicked eyes glared vengefully at the retreating form of the young Englishman. The gaze of his fellows was upon him, but still he hesitated. At heart he was even & greater coward than Mr. William Cecil Clayton had imagined. What he would have done will never be known, for there was another factor ibroad which none of the party had yet guessed would enter so largely Into the problems of their life on this inhospitable African shore. 1 Two keen eyes had watched every move of the party from the foliage of a nearby tree. Tarzan had seen the surprise caused by his notice, and while he could understand nothing of the spoken language of these strange people their gestures and facial expressions told him much. The act of the little rat-faced sailor in killing one of his comrades had aroused a strong dislike In Tarzan, and now that he saw him quarreling with the fine-looking young man his animosity was still further stirred. Tarzan had never seen the effects of a firearm before, though his books had taught him something of them, but when he saw the rat-faced one fingering the butt of his revolver he thought of the scene he had witnessed so short a time before, and naturally expected to see the young man murdered as had been the huge sailor earlier in the day. So Tarzan fitted a poisoned arrow to his bow and drew a bead upon the rat-faced sailor, but the foliage was so thick that he soon saw the arrow would be deflected by the leases or some small branch, and instead he launched a heavy spear from his lofty perch Clayton had taken but a dozen steps. The ratfaced sailor had half drawn his revolver; the other sailors stood watching the scene intently. Professor Porter had already disappeared into the Jungle, whither he was being followed by the fussy Samuel T. Philander, his secretary and assistant. Esmeralda, the negress, was busy sorting her mistress’ baggage froth
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the pile of bales and boxes beside the cabin, and Miss Porter had turned away to follow Clayton, when something caused her to turn again toward the sailor. And then three things happened almost simultaneously—the sailor jerked out his weapon and leveled it at Clayton’s back, Miss Porter screamed a warning, and a long, metal-shod spear shot like a bolt from above and passed entirely through the right shoulder of the rat-faced man. The revolver exploded harmlessly in the air, and the seaman crumpled up with a scream of pain and terror. Clayton turned and rushed back toward the scene. The sailors stood in a frightened group with drawn weapons, peering into the Jungle. The wounded man writhed and shrieked upon the ground. Clayton, unseen by any, picked up the fallen revolver and slipped It inside his shirt, then he joined the sailors in gaing, mystified, Into the jungle. "Who could It have been?” whispered Jane Porter, and the young man turned to see her standing, wide-eyed and wondering, close beside him. "I dare say Tarzan of the Apes is watching us all right,” he answered, In dubious tone. “I wonder, now, who that spear was Intended for. If for Snipes, then our ape friend is a friend indeed. "By Jove, where are your father and Mr. Philander? There’s some one or something in that Jungle, and It'S armed, whatever it Is. Ho! Professor! Mr. Philander!” young Clayton shouted. There was no response. “What’s to be done, Miss Porter?” continued the young man, his face clouded by a frown of worry and indecision. “I can’t leave you here alone with these cut throats, and you certainly can't venture into the jungle with me; yet someone must go in search of your father. He. is more than apt to wandering off aimlessly, regardless of danger or direction and Mr. Philander is only a trifle less impractical than he. You will pardonmy bluntnees, but our lives are all in jeopardy here, and when we get your father back something must be done to Impress upon him the dangers to which he exposes yoVi as well as himself by his absent-mind-edness.” “I quite agree with you,” replied the girl, “and I am not offended at all. Dear old papa would sacrifice his life for me without an Instant’s hesitation, provided one could keep his mind on so frivolous a matter for an entire Instant. There Is only one way to keep him in safety, and that Is to chain him to a tree. The poor dear is so impractical.” “I have It!” suddenly exclaimed Clayton. “You can use a revolver, can’t you?” “Yes. Why?” “I have one. With it you and Esmeralda will be comparatively safe In this cabin while I am searching for your father and Mr. Philander. Come, call the woman and I will hurry on. They can’t have gone far.” Jane Porter did as he suggested and when he saw the door close safely behind them, Clayton turned toward the jungle. Some of the sailors were drawing the spear from their wounded comrade and, as Clayton approached, he Asked if he couM borrow a revolver rrem one of them while he searched the jungle for the professor. The rat-faced one, finding he was not dead, had regained his composure, and with a volley of oa hs directed at Clayton refused In ,he name of his fellows to allow the young man any firearms. This man, Snipes, had assumed the role of chief since he had killed thefr former leader, and so little time had as yet elapsed that none of his companions had as yet questioned his authority. Clayton’s only response was a shrug of the shoulders, but as he left them he picked up the spear which had transfixed Snipes, and thus primitively armed, the son of the then Lord Greystoke strode into the dense .jungle. Every few moments he called aloud the names of the wanderers. The watchers In the cabin by the beach heard the sound of his voice growing ever fainter and fainter, until at last It was swallowed up by the myriad noises of the primeval wood. When Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter and his assistant, Samuel T. Philander, after much insistence on the part of the latter, ~had finally turned their steps toward camp, they were as completely lost In the wild arid tangled labyrinth of the matted jungle as twp human beings well could be, though they did not know It. It was by the merest caprice of fortune thc.t they headed toward the West Cor. ?t of Africa, Instead of toward Zau dbar on the opposite side of the dark continent. When In a short time they reached the beach, only to find no camp In sight, Philander was positive that they were north of their proper destination, while, as a matter of fact
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